Carousel: Week Ending 15th January 2010

Starting January 23rd, students will have the opportunity to take a variety of “Saturday-only”-seven week, hands on courses where they will learn the ins and outs of the fashion business including design, publicity, wardrobe styling/costume design, event planning, jewelry/accessory design and more. Run by fashion designers Kathlin Argiro and Courtney Zellmer and publicity guru Gwen Wunderlich-Smith, Fashionista University gives students a Project Runway meets Gossip Girl real world approach, with celebrity, editor and guest designer appearances as well as access to fashion shows, showroom events, publishing houses, TV stations and more! Fashionista University provides tools teens need to turn their dreams into a reality and break in to the world of fashion with opportunities and experiences beyond anything they ever imagined.

Dear teenagers, you should take this opportunity, for REAL. You will learn sooooooooo much. Additionally (bonus, ding ding ding!), nonpareils can get $100 OFF registration if you mention the code FU011110!

American Mustache Institute: “AMI continues to battle negative stereotyping that has accompanied the mustache since those glory years of the 1970s – the peak of mustache acceptance – fighting to create a climate of acceptance, understanding, flavor saving, and upper lip warmth for all mustached Americans alike.” !!!

Are you in Minneapolis? Do you want to meet some rad new people? (I know so many good people in Minneapolis but that is beside the point!) Nonpareil Coco is in a band called Courtney McClean & the Dirty Curls & she describes it as “naughty hillbilly” music! You can read all about it here & find out about her shows. You should go along! & become friends with her! & tell her I sent you!

Sadie Nardini and her husband decided to have sex every day in December to help them resist the twin temptations of cigarettes and chocolate. It worked. The unexpected fringe benefit of all that sex: they felt and slept better, too.

Create Our World. Who? What? Why? “I’m Benjamin Jenks and I am Hitchhiking around the USA, sharing stories of the Goodness of People.” WORD UP! Also, he is way cool, & sent me an email which said, “My weekend was rad. Met one of my female soulmates & slept on the floor of a man who lost part of his lower leg in Afghanistan. San Diego weather is the bomb!”

My friend Bianca Alexis has a new photography site up. Have a geeze. She is really good at what she does, & you should hire her to make you look beautiful. Remember these photos?! Blast from the past for reals!

“Many people think the success of dieting, seemingly a national obsession following the excesses and resolutions of the holiday season, depends mostly on how hard one tries — on willpower and dedication. While this does matter, new research has found that a much more subtle aspect of the diets themselves can also have a big influence on the pounds shed — namely, the perceived complexity of a diet plan’s rules and requirements.